BTW, spoilers in here if you haven't watched the last few episodes of Sonic X, so if you want to find out about what happened in those last few yourself, dont read!

Me: Hiya It's OddSakura here to write a Sonamy story!

Amy: Hiya! YAY! Will Sonic propose in the end? (Falls into a daydream about her and Sonic's wedding!)

Me: AMY! You're meant to be getting into your costume!

Amy: I'm already wearing it!

Me: Never mind. I had this in my mind WAY before I even knew fanfiction net existed, ever since I saw the last episode of Sonic X!

Everyone except Shadow: COSMO! (Starts crying)

Me: SHUSH! I CRIED ENOUGH OVER IT ALREADY!

Me: It's set after the events of Sonic X and everyone is trying to cope. My OC, Shoral the Hedgehog appears in this fanfic (If you want to know more about her, go to my profile or wailt until I write my story about her).

Shoral: READ ABOUT ME OR DIE! MWAHAHAHA!

Me: Now, my favourite hedgehogs will now do the disclaimer! Take it away boys!

Silver: OddSakura does not own anything in this story,

Shadow: She only owns her OCs and the plot.

Sonic: This is also her first fanfic, so no flames.

Running From It

Chapter 1: Lost Faith

Amy Rose's POV

"SO-ONIC!"

I stood outside the gates to Twinkle Park, a ferocious fire ablaze in my emerald eyes. I took off in search of the blue blur, hammer in hand.

I had changed a lot in the last three months. Maybe not physically, but emotionally. I was still the happy, full of life young girl who had helped defeat the Meterex, but I had matured a lot. I wasn't a damsel in distress very often, but I still needed help when I did get into a scrap.

Most of all, I still loved Sonic the Hedgehog with all my heart, but I wasn't so clingy. Although I became the epitome of anger when he, like today, MISSED OUR DATES!

When I find that hedgehog, I will beat him so hard that he won't be able to even try protesting when I offer him as a test subject for every one of Tails' most dangerous experiments. I thought as I reached the end of the street.

If he ever tries experimenting anymore a tiny voice inside my head butted in. I knew it was right. Tails hadn't even bothered to leave his bed since Cosmo…passed on.

Sonic had tried to reason with him, encouraging him to eat, to even pick up a tool, but to no avail. Tails rarely showed any sign of knowing that his best friend even stood next to him, and he hadn't even looked at food.

If you managed to get him to look you in the eyes, the only thing you would see would be numbness.

The rare times he showed some emotion wouldn't have any variety either, he would look so sad, so… lost, that you would want to cry with heartbreak for the small fox.

Sonic had tried everything he could think of to get his friend back. You could tell that his depression affected Sonic the most. After all, Tails was like a little brother to the blue hero.

Eventually, Sonic called me. I was firm. When he wouldn't get out of bed, I threatened to hit him with my hammer until he did. When he wouldn't eat, I force-fed him vigorously. When he wouldn't speak, I blabbed on right next to him for hours until he said "Please stop talking Amy, you're giving me a headache." Well, talking was talking, right?

And, very slowly, it started to work. He started to eat small portions of food, he got out of bed after only one threat from my hammer, and slowly started to glance at the X-Tornado.

He still refused to talk to anyone but me and Sonic though, but when he did talk, he seemed almost like his old self again. As long as you didn't mention Cosmo, plants, space, the Meterex, the Sonic Super Cannon or the colour green, that is.

I started to bring Cream over as well when I gave Tails my 'treatment' and eventually he started to talk to her as well. I would look at them sharing a small conversation and smile as I would remember Cream's large crush on Tails that had lasted since she first met him. It was sweet, but I knew it would be a long time before Tails got over Cosmo's death.

He wasn't the only one suffering though. Cream and I were crushed when she died, being two of her closest friends. Even though Cream had a complicated crush on Tails, she had been one of the seedrian's best friends, and if she ever came up in a conversation Cream would burst into loud sobs. Sonic was still quite shocked. Knuckles didn't say anything much, but you could tell he was devastated at the lost of such a good hearted comrade. Rouge had even shed some tears, even though she hadn't known Cosmo that well. Shadow, well, he was Shadow.

We had also been worried when Chris left, and constantly fretted about whether or not he had made it home safely or not. Sonic and Chris had been best friends and I also thought that he was a good kid. But his leaving had passed three months ago, and we didn't talk about him as much as we used to.

I realised that I had stopped at the edge of a clearing in the park, so absorbed in my thoughts that I hadn't realised where I was going. As I cursed myself for letting my thoughts wander when I should have been looking for the cobalt wonder, I heard a very familiar voice up ahead.

I made my way through the trees toward the voices and spotted a figure hidden in the foliage nearby. Moving closer I recognised him.

It was Sonic. But he wasn't alone. He was with a girl.

I felt my blood boil in anger. What the heck was he playing at? First he finally agrees to come on a date with me to Twinkle Park, only to stand me up, and when I find him he's with another girl! I had half a mind to get out my trusty Piko Piko Hammer and bash her skull in for trying to move in on him!

But I forced myself to calm down. And as I tried to make out the face of the girl hidden in the shadows, I'm glad I did.

She was a hedgehog, and looked a lot like me in form, just like Shadow looked like Sonic. But she had deep plum coloured fur, with magenta streaks on her bangs and quills. She wore a white rose in her hair, and had a violet dress with white lining. She also wore indigo boots with a red streak down the side, a necklace with a black onyx in the shape of a heart, and had hot pink eyes. It was Shoral.

She seemed to be questioning him about something. Something that was obviously making him very nervous, by the looks of it.

"You're w-wrong Shoral." He said defiantly, though with a very slight waver to his voice. I was about to turn away, thinking that, despite my curiosity, it was none of my business, until…

"Answer truthfully Sonic. Do you have any feelings for Amy?" She asked with determination in her eyes. My eyes immediately grew wide. I saw Sonic's do the same.

I saw him gulp.

I saw him breathe in.

I saw him open him mouth.

"N-No."

I saw my entire world fall apart.

I saw my dreams shattered before my eyes.

I saw my tears hit the park's forest floor.

"Then why do you always save her?" Shoral questioned. My heart rose ever so slightly. A small fragment of hope was left.

"B-Because no one else c-can save that pink b-brat. If Tails or Kn-Knuckles could save her t-then I would happily leave them to it. But they cant s-so I have to. And it's torture to even l-look at her face e-every day. She's just an a-annoying pest who-" He broke off.

Each word stabbed at my heart like a knife. I did my best to not make any noise; I would not let myself be heard. I was paralyzed with fear and horror.

I kept telling myself that it was a nightmare; Sonic would never say these things. But I knew somewhere deep down it was real.

"Stalks me." He finished.

I couldn't help myself; I let out a sob that could be easily heard in the silence.

Sonic turned around, a look of absolute dismay on his face. Shoral was livid and looking as if she wanted so smack the heartbreaking hedgehog into the next century. Sonic took a step toward me.

"Amy I-"

"Get away from me." I whispered as I stepped backward towards the trees.

"But Amy, please!"

"Get away from me!" I yelled. Without another word I sprinted off into the trees.

I didn't care where I was going. I couldn't tell. Tears were burned my eyes as I ran through the city. I eventually collapsed in an alleyway close to the Chaotix's building.

I cried.

I sobbed.

I pounded my fists against the floor in fury.

I let out all of my emotions. Not just the ones I had experienced today. But all the feelings I had felt for years.

Anguish for when I thought I had lost him back on the ARK.

Anger for when he missed our dates.

Love for when he saved me from danger.

Sadness for when my lucky bracelet for him was destroyed.

Loneliness for when I was trapped with only Lily while Chaos was wreaking havoc.

Fear for when I thought that he might not make it in time.

And now…Hate.

Not hate for him. Hating myself for loving him. For believing in him. For thinking he loved me back.

And as I walked back to my house I realised that I had done the one thing I had once promised myself never to do.

I had lost faith.

Me: Did I do okay?

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Blaze (also smiling evilly with her hands holding flames, mutters when I turn away): Breathe a bad word about it and you'll find yourselves in hospital several weeks from now with half your faces burnt off, got it? Now cheer!

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